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Copy of letter to U.S. Surgeon General from Lemuel B. Schofield, Special Assistant to the Attorney General regarding the detention of alien seamen at Fort Missoula

Copy of letter to U.S. Surgeon General from Lemuel B. Schofield, Special Assistant to the Attorney General regarding the detention of alien seamen at Fort Missoula

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April 29, 1941
Surgeon General
U� S. Publlo Health Service
Washington, D.G.
Dear Sir;
As a result of the recent seizure to prevent sabotage of certain foreign ships in United States harbors, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service has had placed in its custody approximately fifteen hundred alien seamen, and since our ordinary detention facilities were not adequate, Fort Missoula, Montana, and Fort .Lincoln, North Dakota, nave been transferred to this Service by the Bar Department for use as places of detention for those aliens
It it planned to transfer five hundred of these detainees to Fort Missoula in approximately ten days, and the facilities at that place are being expanded so as to accommodate up to fifteen hundred persons. Involved in the problem of maintaining these aliens at Fort Missoula will be the furnishing of proper medical care, and this Service is of the opinion that that responsibility should be assumed by the Q� S. Public Health Service*
There is a Government owned hospital at Fort Missoula which was recently damaged by fire but which the ;Yar Department is undertaking to have renovated and repaired. It is estimated that it will take approximately one month to complete such repairs. This hospital is understood to be well equipped and sufficiently large to accommodate at least fifty patients. Since the medical care of these detainees is a responsibility of the Government created by the national emergency, and Since this Service has neither the personnel nor the funds with which to operate this hospital, it is requested that it be taken over and operated by the U. S. Public Health Service and it would be greatly appreciated if you will advise at an early date whether your Service is prepared to do this.
Sincerely yours,
LEMUEL B. SCHOFIELD, Special Assistant to the Attorney General.

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Copy of letter to U.S. Surgeon General from Lemuel B. Schofield, Special Assistant to the Attorney General regarding the detention of alien seamen at Fort Missoula

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April 29, 1941
Surgeon General
U� S. Publlo Health Service
Washington, D.G.
Dear Sir;
As a result of the recent seizure to prevent sabotage of certain foreign ships in United States harbors, the Immigration and Naturalisation Service has had placed in its custody approximately fifteen hundred alien seamen, and since our ordinary detention facilities were not adequate, Fort Missoula, Montana, and Fort .Lincoln, North Dakota, nave been transferred to this Service by the Bar Department for use as places of detention for those aliens
It it planned to transfer five hundred of these detainees to Fort Missoula in approximately ten days, and the facilities at that place are being expanded so as to accommodate up to fifteen hundred persons. Involved in the problem of maintaining these aliens at Fort Missoula will be the furnishing of proper medical care, and this Service is of the opinion that that responsibility should be assumed by the Q� S. Public Health Service*
There is a Government owned hospital at Fort Missoula which was recently damaged by fire but which the ;Yar Department is undertaking to have renovated and repaired. It is estimated that it will take approximately one month to complete such repairs. This hospital is understood to be well equipped and sufficiently large to accommodate at least fifty patients. Since the medical care of these detainees is a responsibility of the Government created by the national emergency, and Since this Service has neither the personnel nor the funds with which to operate this hospital, it is requested that it be taken over and operated by the U. S. Public Health Service and it would be greatly appreciated if you will advise at an early date whether your Service is prepared to do this.
Sincerely yours,
LEMUEL B. SCHOFIELD, Special Assistant to the Attorney General.